Colin Kearns

Oct 24, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Tom Keer |Scott Bestul |Colin Kearns |Steven Hill

I love gun dogs, which means I wouldn’t walk a pheasant or quail field or sit in a blind without one. Dogs make every hunt. On some days they cast perfectly and handle every bird with ease. On others they plow through thick vegetation and crank out one blind retrieve after another. Those epic hunts make up for the times when they come unhinged and we cuss with the eloquence of a dockworker. But Momma didn’t raise no quitter, so we get them back on track.

Oct 15, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Scott Bestul |Colin Kearns |Phil Bourjaily |Morgan Lyle

As we move from mid- to late-October, bucks are primed to go on a sign-making frenzy, which means that the number of fresh scrapes dotting your hunting grounds is about to explode. Depending on whom you ask, buck scrapes are either whitetail hunting’s hot ticket or the biggest form of fool’s gold going. For every hunter who’s arrowed a giant buck over a scrape, you’ll meet five who’ve repeatedly sat staring the sign and gotten skunked.

Oct 15, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Colin Kearns |David E. Petzal |Hal Herring |Phil Bourjaily

We don’t often cover books on F&S.com—but when we do, it’s about ones that we either love or ones written by an author we admire. Both of those criteria apply to Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe.

Oct 7, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Colin Kearns |Scott Bestul |Phil Bourjaily |Morgan Lyle

HE EASED the drift boat into the awakening river. A chinook crashed the surface. Chukars on the far bank cackled. The rising sun gradually lightened Mack’s Canyon and opened color in the water that had streamed black in the predawn. The current carried us to the first bend, and Joe Randolph angled the oars for the turn where the Deschutes widened before us, wild and swift. The river pulsed beneath the hull. It was like riding a beast, sprung from its cage. “How’s your wading?” Randolph asked.

Sep 30, 2024 | fieldandstream.com | Morgan Lyle |Colin Kearns |Phil Bourjaily |Jace Bauserman

Should you get into Euro nymphing? Well, consider this: If you’re interested in fast cars, your experts are NASCAR and Formula 1. If you’re into basketball, perhaps your role models are the NBA. And if you want to catch more trout, you will want to try Euro nymphing, the way the “pros” fish do on the competition fly-fishing circuit. Competition fly-fishers spend a lot of time, money, and effort to win their medals. They need to catch trout, and they mostly do it by fishing nymphs on a tight line.